CBS EVENING NEWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100290001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 17, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 [phone]
PROGRAM CBS Evening News STATION WDVM-TV
CBS Network
DATE January 17, 1986 7:00 P.M. CITY Washington, D.C.
SUBJECT Full Text -
DAN RATHER: Good evening. This is the CBS Evening
News. Dan Rather reporting.
President Reagan tonight left the hospital after his
first full battery of tests to check for any possible recurrence
of the colon cancer he had last summer. Test results not yet
reported tonight by the White House.
BILL PLANTE: As President Reagan departed the hospital
after his exam for a long weekend at Camp David, he seemed
encouraged by the results.
REPORTER: Mr. President, what did the doctors tell you?
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: Fine.
REPORTER: Any sign of cancer or tumors?
PRESIDENT REAGAN: Nope. Everything's fine.
PLANTE: Heading into the hospital this afternoon,
President Reagan acknowledged that he was ready for this checkup,
after admitting yesterday that he really wasn't looking forward
to it at all. No wonder. The procedure, similar to the one
shown here, isn't dangerous, but it is uncomfortable.
First, a colonoscopy to examine the President's bowel
for new polyp growth and to take a look at the place where his
surgery was performed last summer.
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But today's action left only Raymond Button (?) and his mother as
defendants; and parents of the alleged victims outraged.
DIANE CARTER: We were idealistic enough to believe that
the crimes against children deserved prosecution.
FELICIA BROCKLASBY: I just can't imagine walking into
the local Safeway and seeing them there.
ROBERT CURRIE: And if we allow this to happen,
pedophiles all over the country can get jobs in preschools and
can molest kids.
DOW: Released defendants claimed that they had been
victims of public emotion.
MARY ANN JACKSON: I know the suffering that can come
upon innocent people as a result of this hysteria.
BETTY RAIDOR: They filled the children full of
fantasies they fed to the children.
I never did anything wrong. And I was never aware or
never saw anything wrong.
DOW: Next steps: arraignment and then trial for the
two remaining defendants in the McMartin case, the final laps in
a legal marathon that is expected to run for many more months.
David Dow, CBS News, Los Angeles.
RATHER: In Beirut today, a Spanish diplomat and two
fl Lebanese employees of the Spanish Embassy were kidnaped near the
Beirut airport. An anonymous phone-caller reportedly demanded
the release of two Shiite Muslims imprisoned in Spain.
Just hours earlier, and perhaps not coincidentally,
Spain and Israel established diplomatic relations for the first
time.
United States Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead
was in Rome today, part of his mission still trying to sell the
European allies on U.S. economic sanctions against Libya.
Whitehead gave Prime Minister Craxi what he called
incontrovertible evidence that Libya was behind the brutal Rome
and Vienna terror attacks and killings.
And Whitehead had a word for Muammar Qaddafi, who has
called those attacks everything from heroic to horrible.
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DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN WHITEHEAD: It is what
has caused President Reagan to call him flaky. And because I am
a diplomat, I have used a more modest word: crazy.
RATHER: Muammar Qaddafi is flaky. Muammar Qaddafi is
crazy. That's what President Reagan and members of his
Administration have been repeatedly telling us. And it could
well be true. There's a lot of evidence to support it.
But Steve Kroft reports from Tripoli that there are
those who say they see another Qaddafi, a leader who carries
weight in the Arab World, a man with a method to his madness.
STEVE KROFT: Seen through American eyes, he's the
ultimate victim, the godfather of international terrorism, a
one-dimensional, erratic, irrational, unbalanced, two-bit
dictator.
Why, then, has the United States been unable to
effectively isolate him? Because not everyone sees him exactly
the same way.
Miles Copeland used to be with the CIA.
MILES COPELAND: He may be crazy to us, but he's not
crazy to a large part of the Third World.
That the Arab nations took his side in the latest crisis
with America is not insignificant. After all, Libay's army had
invaded Chad, massed recently on the border with Egypt, and
Qaddafi has meddled in the affairs of Algeria, Tunisia and Sudan.
His neighbors think he's a menace. They back him because he's
Arab. The son of a Bedouin, who by the age of 26 had
overthrown a king, shaken off the colonial yoke, and dismantled
the largest American air base outside the United States.
Seventeen years later, he's one of the longest-serving
leaders in the Arab World. And despite current economic problems
related to the price of oil, he remains admired by most of his
subjects.
To understand why people here love Qaddafi, you must
realize that in 1958, less than 30 years ago, Libya was still a
feudal kingdom populated by desert people living in tents. The
average personal income was $25 a year. Today it's nearly 7000.
He's not a communist. Qaddafi embraces the Russians for
his own protection. But not even they claim to control him.
RICHARD JOHNS [Financial Times]: He's very volatile and
opportunistic, and appears inconsistent. The only thing
consistent about him are his long-term objectives.
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KROFT: More than anything else, Qaddafi wants to be
taken seriously, to make his presence felt. Thus his support for
terrorism.
He has three obsessions: hatred of Israel, hatred of
the United States for supporting Israel, and a dream of a united
Arab world.
JAMES THOMPSON [London University]: He's articulating
the viewpoint of the nation. He's doing it in his own style,
which is different from the Western style. And he's hanging in
there as a leader. It must be that he's saying something the
people want to hear.
KROFT: Qaddafi's biggest strength is still his money.
He's a good customer for America's allies in Western Europe,
Japan and South Korea. And they have been willing, so far, to
overlook the blood he's tracked across the floor in his support
of terrorist groups. The customer, as the saying goes, is always
right.
COPELAND: He has pulled the Arab World behind him a lot
more successfully than we've pulled Europe behind us in deciding
what we're going to do in our conflict with him. He's won this
one.
KROFT: One British diplomat compared the frustrations
of dealing with Qaddafi to those encountered by the Europeans 30
years ago in dealing with Qaddafi's hero, Gamel Abdel Nasser.
The more the French and the British attacked Nasser, the more
prestige he accrued.
It is a lesson, many think, the U.S. is now relearning.
L
Steve Kroft, CBS News, Tripoli, Libya.
RATHER: The Soviet Union's staunch ally on the Arabian
Peninsular is South Yemen. But this week's intense fighting
between rival Marxist-Leninist factions has made it anything but
a friendly place. So, late today, hundreds of foreigners,
Soviets and West Europeans, began evacuating South Yemen's
capital on the British royal yacht Brittania and other ships.
The danger is real. But the French and German Embassies
already have been damaged by shellfire.
RATHER: The Reagan Administration, sayingit's trying to
protect jobs in the domestic auto industry, today refused to
increase fuel economy requirements for 1987 and 1988 model cars.
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